Find element with certain text inside another element using UISelector query

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I have the following code snippet and the screenshot attached.

String query = "new UiScrollable(new UiSelector().className(\"androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView\"))" +
                ".scrollIntoView(new UiSelector().text(\"Test Group\"))";
driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator (query).click ();

What I want is to find an element with the text “Test Group” using UISelector, but inside the RecyclerView only (not searching the whole app source). What I get is the element inside search field instead (not in the RecyclerView).

Please advice. I know that I can get all searched elements using findElements(By.id("name")). But I want to use UI selector in this case.

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what problem now? does it start scrolling?

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I’ll try to explain in another way.
Please look at the screenshot. I have 2 elements with the “Test Group” text:

  1. The first is inside the search field (has id search_src_text). This is what I typed to find the required group.
  2. The second is the search result which I need to get (has id name). It is located within the RecyclerView.

With my UIAutomator query I’m getting the first element (inside the search field). What I want is to get the element inside the RecyclerView (not counting the element inside search field at all).

I know that I can do it with findElements(By.id("name")), but I want to understand how can I query with UIAutomator inside one particular element (in my case it is RecyclerView).

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All clear. You provide example of code. You did not mention what happen when you run this code.

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Aleksei, as I said twice, when I run the code I click the element with text “Test Group” from the search field (first element which query found in the app sources). But I need to get it from my search results (which are located inside the recycler view). I can even make a video for you if you don’t understand :slight_smile:
And my question is how can I search for the element with UIAutomator not in the whole app sources, but in one particular element (container), in my case this recycler view.

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interesting. try to add:

new UiSelector().resourceIdMatches(\".*name\").text(\"Test Group\")
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It works, thanks. But I have one question:


If I need to scroll the search results to find the required group, this query will not work (NoSuchElementException).


Can I use something with UIScrollable and childSelector to achieve my goal?


I tried this monster of a query, but it of course doesn’t work:

String query = "new UiScrollable(new UiSelector().className(\"androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView\")).scrollIntoView(new UiSelector().className(\"androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView\").childSelector(new UiSelector().text(\"Test Group\"))))";
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try:

new UiScrollable(new UiSelector().resourceIdMatches(\".*recycler_view").scrollable(true))
.scrollIntoView(new UiSelector().resourceIdMatches(\".*name\").text(\"Test Group\"))";

or

new UiScrollable(new UiSelector().scrollable(true))
.scrollIntoView(new UiSelector().resourceIdMatches(\".*name\").text(\"Test Group\"))";
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Thanks a lot!
How did you get all this knowledge with UIAutomator queries? :slight_smile:

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Работа такая.

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Согласен) Продолжу на инглише для красоты)

I have one more question. Sometimes the required search result can have the ID number instead of name (when I search for the number instead of group).

Can I have logical ‘OR’ in my query which will check if the element with the ID name OR number has the the required text ?

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you may try appium annotations BUT! such (i mean UiScrollable(). scrollIntoView…) commands may work not reliable when they together.

    @AndroidFindAll(value = {
            @AndroidBy(uiAutomator = query_1),
            @AndroidBy(uiAutomator = query_2)
    })
    private List<MobileElement> elements;
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